Additional Bounty Paid
Document 1795Act of Congress allowed additional bounty to be paid to soldiers. Money paid to those who reinlisted.
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[Endorsements, center of page, rotated:]
[undecipherable] direct [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] enlist[ment] Bounty [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Arty & Engs [undecipherable]
July [undecipherable] 27 1795
rect 11 Aug 1795
3. [undecipherable]
[Archival notation, bottom left: 1792 / Dalcho, Frederick / Sirgo Mate / Lt. Arty & Engrs 1794 / Sirgo Mate 1747–94]
The United States
To Lieut Fred. Dalcho Dr.
[Serge Mate –1792 / Lt. Arty & Engrs 1794 / Rect 1795] [Serge Mate 1797–99]
For this sum, being so much paid by him to the following Soldiers, as the additional boun-ty allowed by an Act of Congress, passed the 3d of March 1795. to wit
to [underline: Nathan Boson] who reinlisted on the 4th Aug.t 1794. to [underline: Lewis Du Bois] who re-inlisted on the 24th Sep.t 1794 and to [underline: Patrick O'Hara] who reinlisted on the 22d Oct.r 1794 at eight dollars each — — — — $24 —
Fort Fidelius — Received August 11th 1795. of Ensign [underline: Hugh McCall] [undecipherable: probable reading 1st Sergt] Pay Master of the Federal Troops in Georgia, the Sum of Twenty four Dollars, in full for the above account & having signed Duplicates hereof.
[$24] Fred.k Dalcho Lieu.t
Corps of Arty & Engineers U.S.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Act of Congress allowed additional bounty to be paid to soldiers. Money paid to those who reinlisted.
Date
08/11/1795
Author
Recipient
Document number
1795081121001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Frederick Dalcho
Joseph Howell

